- President-elect George W. Bush is expected to push for changes in US energy policy that would affect consumers as well as oil and natural gas companies. The highlights of his energy plans include opening 1.5 million acres or 8 percent of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to "environmentally responsible" drilling. Bush said the amount of oil that could be profitably produced from that portion of the Alaska refuge was roughly equal to the 750,000 barrels per day that Iraq ships to the US market.